by Jordana Choucair | Mar 2, 2022 | Opioid/Substance Use Disorders
Supreme Court justices struggled to define a legal standard to parse out unusual medical practices from drug dealing as they considered the cases of two doctors who were convicted of unlawful drug distribution. The justices deliberated how to read a phrase in a...
by Jordana Choucair | Mar 1, 2022 | Opioid/Substance Use Disorders
Lawyers for two doctors convicted of illegal opioid prescribing will ask the Supreme Court to overturn the doctors’ convictions and establish a standard that allows doctors to raise a “good faith” defense. Juries could then consider whether doctors...
by Jordana Choucair | Feb 25, 2022 | Opioid/Substance Use Disorders
Drugmaker Johnson & Johnson and three major distributors –AmerisourceBergen Corp., McKesson Corp., and Cardinal Health Inc. – finalized a $26 billion settlement with states and local governments over their role in the opioid epidemic. The nationwide settlements...
by Jordana Choucair | Feb 24, 2022 | Opioid/Substance Use Disorders
Addiction Professionals of North Carolina Executive Director Sarah Potter authored a blog sharing her thoughts on the current harm reduction controversy playing out at the federal level. Sarah states that while harm reduction isn’t a cure-all, it is “part of a...
by Jordana Choucair | Feb 21, 2022 | Opioid/Substance Use Disorders
The mediator for the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy settlement case reported that the Sackler family is willing to pay at least $1.2 million more to settle the case. According to a third interim report filed on Friday, the family proposed to pay between $5.5 million and $6...
by Jordana Choucair | Feb 17, 2022 | Opioid/Substance Use Disorders
Several Democrat Senators sent a letter asking the Department of Justice (DOJ) to consider possible criminal charges for Sackler family members on top of the department’s previously resolved civil and criminal investigations into Purdue. The senators noted that...
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